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A tragedy has struck South Africa’s Johannesburg city again. Newly elected Johannesburg Mayor, Jolidee Matongo died in car crash this past weekend hours after a door to door local government election campaign with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in Soweto. The 46 year old had been elected as Mayor of the city on August 10th after his predecessor, Geoff Makhubo… Read More

Last updated: 28 minutes ago Jewish worshippers flock to the Western Wall Plaza, the holiest site at which Jews can pray, for the Sukkot festival Priestly blessing. Sukkot, or the “Feast of the Tabernacles”, is a week-long festival which in 2021 began at nightfall on September 20, during which people eat and sleep in makeshift booths to commemorate the biblical… Read More

South African Airways announced last month that it had set a date (September 23rd) to resume operations. True to its word, SAA will relaunch today after a year of inactivity and almost 18 months without a commercial flight. The carrier will initially offer flights from Johannesburg to Cape Town, Accra, Kinshasa, Harare, Lusaka and Maputo. SAA has not flown any… Read More

The president of Madagascar branded current efforts to fight climate change “lax” and called for urgent and coordinated world response during his address to the United Nation’s General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. The south of the Indian Ocean nation of Madagascar is currently in the grip of a severe drought, threatening some 400,000 people with starvation. The crisis… Read More

Morocco’s Prime Minister-designate, Aziz Akhannouch, announced on Wednesday that his party has reached an agreement to form a coalition government with the two other parties that came out on top in the legislative elections held in early September. In addition to Mr. Akhannouch’s liberal party, the Rassemblement National des Indépendants (RNI), the coalition will include the Authenticity and Modernity Party… Read More

Last updated: 12 hours ago With just a knife, brush and pencil, 30 year old Egyptian sculpture artist Ibrahim Belal is a master of his tools, creating miniature sculptures of the most prominent Pharaonic and Egyptian landmarks at his home in the city of Rashid, in the Beheira Governorate, some 300 kilometres south of Cairo. He dreams of creating one… Read More

The woman’s breasts had been cut off, but her genitals were untouched. An unusual choice for a killer. Even stranger, no blood had spilled at the crime scene. The body must have been moved. It may have been the work of a murderer — but not a mutilator, says Elmarie Myburgh, the only criminal profiler in South Africa’s police force.… Read More

Benin’s President Patrice Talon met on Wednesday with his predecessor Thomas Boni Yayi for the first time in five years, indicating a possible thaw in relations between the government and the opposition in the West African country. Boni Yayi, 70, arrived smiling and looking relaxed as the two men greeted each other warmly ahead of the hour-long meeting at the… Read More

Belal was introduced to this form of art by chance through social media, and after 20 failed attempts, he managed to sculpt his first piece in the shape of a small heart. Belal faced many criticisms when he started this work and spends hours in front of the microscope to create his masterpieces. The hardest miniature sculpture Belal made was… Read More

Burundian athlete Francine Niyonsaba returned home after breaking the world 2000m record in Zagreb last week, clocking 5:21.56 secs, just days after she won the 5000m in Zurich in 14:28.98. “I was in Switzerland and other countries, where my victories gave me the points I needed to get to the final and win the 5000m trophy,” Niyonsaba said. Meanwhile, hundreds… Read More